#dreamtigers

[litsnaps]

[quotessentially]

From Jorge Luis Borges’s Dreamtigers

[exhaled-spirals]

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.

Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers (afterword)

[waste-it-on-something-useful]

In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted “tiger” of the Amazonian tangles and the isles of vegetation that float down the Paraná, but that striped, Asiatic, royal tiger, that can only be faced by a man of war, on a castle atop an elephant. [...] Childhood passed away, and the tigers and my passion for them grew old, but still they are in my dreams.

José Zúñiga (as a character called Miguel Flores) reads from a poem in Jorge Luis Borges’ collection Dreamtigers (1960) in the film Fresh Kill (Shu Lea Cheang, 1994).

[okfool]

[quotespile]

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers

[endless-unfolding]

For Poetry Returns like the dawn and the sunset.

Jorge Luis Borges, from “Ars Poetica,” trans. Harold Morland in Dreamtigers

[musicmakesyousmart]

Dreamtigers - Six Rivers

Skeletal Lightning

2021